The artist constructs a popcorn machine, holding the parts together with gaffer's tape. She then plugs it in and makes popcorn.
The artist assembles a jerry-rigged chandelier. She then hangs it upside down and illuminates it.
Wearing a blue bathrobe and a towel around her head, Baldino assembles a hair dryer with a drill and tape. She then puts her head in the "dryer."
Wearing silver heels, fishnets and long, red satin gloves, Baldino attaches a Slinky between two bookends with a power drill. Performing as if she were a magician's assistant, she presents a magazine to the camera and wedges it in the Slinky. The bookends and Slinky collapse.
Description
Writes Baldino: "Initially inspired by the theories behind 'Fuzzy Logic,' this series reveals that opposites can be the same. Something is what it is and what it is not, simultaneously... All of the work is shot in the first take, without editing."
In these witty performance pieces, Baldino constructs, deconstructs or reconstructs objects to subvert their meaning and function. The objects simultaneously are and are not the objects indicated by their name; they are incapable of fulfilling the function they are designed to perform. In several pieces, Baldino performs the assembly or disassembly of these everyday objects while wearing incongruous costumes — fishnet stockings and long satin gloves, for example — that further the sense of disconnect between the action and its meaning.
